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breeding

English

  1. 🔊 producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring
    “the breeding population”
  2. 🔊 the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization
  3. 🔊 helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
    “they debated whether nature or nurture was more important”
  4. 🔊 elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
  5. 🔊 the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
  6. 🔊 the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
    “a woman of breeding and refinement”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 semental breeding
  2. 🔊 cría breeding, rearing of an animal

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